Storm deck

A storm deck (English: awning deck ), formerly also a hurricane deck, is a deck on a ship.

details

According to the definition of authorities and classification societies, a storm deck is a heavily built, closed or interrupted deck above the main deck .

The storm deck developed from the protective deck . This deck, built of iron or steel but excluded from the survey, was often built on cargo ships with passenger facilities as an additional lightly built deck to connect existing deck structures in order to create an additional covered deck area. Storm decks, on the other hand, were more heavily built and often only partially continuous, for example on ships with a raised quarter deck or ships with a long poop . For both protection and storm decks, classification societies have issued their own regulations regarding the materials to be selected and their strengths.

literature

• See-Berufsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Regulations on the freeboard for steamers and sailing ships in long and Atlantic voyages as well as in large coastal voyages . Self-published, Hamburg 1908.
• Claviez, Wolfram (Ed.): Seemännisches Dictionary . 2nd Edition. Verlag Delius, Klasing & Co, Bielefeld 1978, ISBN 3-7688-0166-7 .
• Authors group: Ship Design and Construction . Ed .: D'Arcangelo, Amelio M. 2nd edition. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New York 1969 (Library of Congress Card No. 71-83259).